Money Basics: Budgeting, Credit, Saving and Investing from Zero
Unit 6 · Lesson 2

One Company or Five Hundred: Spreading Risk and Why Time Changes a 30% Drop

You will explain how holding a broad basket of many companies behaves differently from holding one, and justify why the same 30% fall means something different to someone needing the money in 12 months than in 30 years.
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Chapter 1 of 4 — One Company, or Five Hundred
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